Falko Weißpflog | |
Birth Place: | Pleißa, East Germany |
Personalbest: | 174m (571feet) Oberstdorf, West Germany (5 March 1974) |
Seasons: | 1980 |
Individual Starts: | 6 |
Falko Weißpflog (born 1954) is an East German former ski jumper who competed from 1977 to 1980.
He won a bronze medal in the individual large hill competition at the 1978 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti.
On 5 March 1974, he set the ski jumping world record distance at 174 metres (571 ft) on Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze hill in Oberstdorf, West Germany.[1] [2]
Weißpflog's best non-world championship career finish was fourth on three separate occasions, twice in 1978 and once in 1980. Rock singer Falco took his stage name from Weißpflog.